Like the title says what are the drawbacks about writing a fanfic novel?
What are the drawbacks about writing a fanfic novel?
I think ..you cannot sign a contract with it. That is, if you are a writer, you might not be able to get monetary benefits out of it.
Ichigo015 Like others have said, likely no contract since you're using copyrighted material. You'll have to make up for that with patreon or PayPal, I guess.
There are some...negative feelings among the community about fan-fiction works for several reasons. I personally dislike them, but not to the point of hating authors and the like.
There will always be some condescending feelings though because they use established, high popular franchises as their base (Harry Potter, DxD, Marvel, DC, etc).
The result is that they have an enormous pulling power that original works can't compete with at all.
Combined with the fact there are so many of them coming out all the time, you get a nasty situation for beginning original authors. I genuinely believe that they're snuffing out original stories at the moment.
But if you really love a certain franchise or series, you should do what you want. It's all about writing stuff you like, not about pleasing the masses. Well, at least it's that way for me. Up to you in the end.
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I think writing fan fiction is great, just don’t sell it off as you’re own work or overcharge for it on Patreon. I think 1$ for a lot of chapters is fine. (Look a true other examples)
Ive read some really good fan fictions. It’s amazing how imagination goes.
I’m writing fan fiction, it’s great writing exercises and for practice
I've only sincerely read one fan-fiction novel, though it was an official one known as "In Different World with Naruto System". I personally enjoyed it (it's not on this site, you can search it on novel updates), but it suddenly became rushed half-way through.
Not entirely sure what happened to cause the sudden rush in development, maybe copyright/warnings caused a sudden need to finish the story up. I'd also consider the setting/composition of a story's source material as a limitation when writing.